emily: that was senator gary peters joining us from washington., the new satirical novel about silicon valley written by a former google exec. we will speak with author jessica powell next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: jessica powell is a former head of communications at google, but wants to make it clear that her new novel, "the big disruption" is not a description of her time. >> i would have loved to do it anonymously. the idea of doing this is kind of terrifying. but at the end of the day, and i didn't want to think it was about a specific company. but i also realize at this time there are few senior people in tech that speak out about issues like this. a lot of times they are still on the payroll so i thought it was important to put my name on the book. emily: as the new york times says, not long ago, your job was to defend silicon valley. when you look at the plot lines, the sales guy battling with the engineers, the female employees, the unwitting subjects of a social experiment, the vps plotting against each other, and the yoga loving sex o

we were joined by gary peters who serves on the senate commerce committee. have to make sure we : have a framework to allow this technology to continue to move forward. existing vehicle safety laws do not allow an automobile without brake pedals, for example. you have these new technologies which will be piloted by machine learning, literally piloted by machines. we have got to make sure we have that framework. emily: the administration is saying the dot has authority, that congress does not meet to -- need to step in to manage emerging technology. why do you disagree? gary: we want to do this fairly quickly. it depends on how quickly the department of transportation will move forward on this. our start act gives flexibility to manufacturers as long as they are actually certifying they have safe vehicles, and they are dealing with things like cybersecurity. this technology is moving very, very rapidly. we want to make sure automakers have an idea of what that framework is. you are looking at some of them which will be putting up a level -- putting out level 4

. >> democratic senator gary peters of michigan. senator, with a good morning to you on this very busy and long day. you have senator manchin who says that he believes something happened to dr. ford but the facts do not show she was sexually assaulted specifically by brett kavanaugh. and you tweeted, quote, i found dr. ford's testimony before the judiciary committee compelling and credible. while i'm opposed to judge kavanaugh's nomination because of his rulings that are hostile to michigan workers and our environment, the nation deserves to have more facts about the allegations. so where do you come down in terms of reflecting the opinion of senator manchin? >> every senator has to make their own decision based on the facts they see. certainly i respect senator manchin's decision. i may not agree with it but i respect it. ultimately, especially on the vote of this magnitude, we all have to vote based on what we feel is right and when we look in the mirror in the morning, it's got to be something we're comfortable with. obviously it

to talk about this, i want to bring in gary peters of michigan who introduced bipartisan legislationo advance self driving cars. first of all, what do you like and do not like about these new guidelines? >> i think the guidelines are pretty clear that we have to make sure we have a framework to allow this technology to continue to move forward. existing vehicle safety laws do not allow an automobile without a steering wheel or break pedals. technologiese new piloted by advanced machine learning and ai systems. they will be piloted by machines and we have to make sure we have that framework. emily: the administration is saying the dot has the authority and congress does not need to step in. why do you disagree with that? >> we want to do this quickly. it depends on how quickly the department of transportation will move forward on this. this gives flexibility to manufacturers as long as they are certifying they have safe vehicles and they are dealing with things like cybersecurity. this technology is moving rapidly. we want to make sure automakers have an idea of what that framework is

senator gary peters pushed for the provision out of concern over contaminated water problems in michigan and other states. we're now seeing more and more incidents where this is getting into drinking water, contaminating it the faa reauthorization bill helps to address contaminated water coming from commercial airports.military facilities. defense officials say they're taking steps of their own to keep people safe on and off base.the defense department says restricting the use of toxic chemicals is just one part of the plan.test for pfas or pfo and address any contamination health advisory levelenvironmentalist want the epa to strenghten regulations. this is really just the tip of the comes to addressing the wide spread contamination from pfas chemicals.epa officials contaminated water is a top the agency issued public health advisories and are testing current standards are safe.in washington, brie jackson. (mabrisa)ten at ten (ken) starting a bucket list. one sick little boy wants to meet the super hero he feels gives him strength. the real life hero who came through for him. (sports) j

so the senate has been in session all night long, where democratic senators have been speaking, gary peters the democrat from michigan was speaking a few moments ago and i see another senator tammy baldwin a democrat from wisconsin has just taken the floor mostly democrats but what they will do is enter into an agreement as they get closer to say we're going to step up this vote and they start about 4:00 neil. neil: chad thank you very very much protesters were rallying outside capitol hill ahead of this vote to jillian turner on their numbers and whether they could swell certainly by later this afternoon. what are you hearing? reporter: now i can, nice to join you, neil. it's a little tough hearing you just so you know there's massive crowds behind me. the thing about these protests, neil is it's only 10 a.m. in the morning and they have grown, i've been here since 5 a.m. in the last hour, we have seen thousands of people pitch up here on the lawn in front of the capitol building right now i'm nestled kind of directly equal distance between the supreme court and the capitol building and th

rotates out of technology this morning, we are going to look to see where it's going, we, albert, peter, garyand ian for sticking with us as we are following major selloff of 2 and a half percent. the month of october, this could be the worst one for the nasdaq in a decade. cheryl: nasdaq as well but also to your point of october, october is the most volatile month for stock trading in 118 years. we talk -- we don't want to bore you with the volatility index but it is all about fear gauge and fear with investors, as we send it over to maria, maria has gotten back from silicon valley, big interviews that she had this week and we are watching technology selloff this morning, maria. maria: yes, indeed, the earnings confirming what a lot of people were worried about that we are seeing slowdown and expectations and we will see you in a little while, thank you so much. good morning, happy friday, thanks for joining us, i'm more- maria bartiromo, top stories 6:00 a.m. on the button, markets in selloff mode again this morning. dow joan industrials expected

peter navarro has been at the president's signed like a few like gary cohn said you can't do.o tentative. doipght blow up these agreements. instead the president said i'm going to put my guys out there and team forward. i'm going to redo this, upgrade and rebalance trade. you had south korea last week and now have you nafta this week. steve: this was one of the president's signature promises i'm going to redo this. as of last night midnight. ainsley: it's done. steve: it has to be ratified by congress and they are very political these days. ainsley: that's right. in other news the supreme court is convening it's october 1st. the supreme court openings a new term u the difference this year is there is going to be a seat that is open. that ninth seat will be open because you know what what's happening with brett kavanaugh hasn't been confirmed because there is now an fbi investigation. brian: put this under the term predictable. as soon as jeff flake put his hand up and said i will get this out of committee by voting for it but i will not vote for it when it goes to the floor i'